有一天他奉告我说：“我不该把她的话当真，不该听信那些花儿的话。我们只要赏识花的模样，看看花，闻闻它就得了。我的花让我的星球充满芳香，可我却不为此欢畅，不会享用它。花说的关于老虎爪子的事让我很活力，实在她只是在撒娇，却反而使我恼火……”
“真对不起……”
但是，这棵小苗不久就不再长了，而是开端冒出了花苞，孕育了一个花朵。看到花苞长出一个很大的花蕾，小王子信赖它必然会开出一朵出奇标致的花。但是这朵花藏在它那绿茵茵的房间里，迟迟不肯暴露斑斓的容颜，她用了很长的时候来打扮本身。她经心遴选她将来的色彩，慢腾腾地打扮着，一片片地调剂花瓣的位置，她不但愿本身仿佛野地里的虞美人那样一出世就满脸皱纹。她要让本身光艳夺目地来到人间。是的，她是非常在乎标致的。她用很多天时候天仙般地打扮打扮。然后，在一天的凌晨，刚幸亏太阳升起的时候，她暴露了本身的真脸孔。
小王子很不美意义，从速拿来喷壶，打来了一壶清清的凉水，灌溉着花儿。
“你刚才跟我说的时候，我就筹办去拿……”
“当然了，”花儿悠然得意地回应说，“我是与太阳同时出世的……”
So, too, she began very quickly to torment him with her vanity― which was, if the truth be known, a little difficult to deal with. One day, for instance, when she was speaking of her four thorns, she said to the little prince:"Let the tigers come with their claws!""There are no tigers on my planet," the little prince objected. "And, anyway, tigers do not eat weeds.""I am not a weed," the flower replied, sweetly.
半晌以后，她弥补说道：“我想现在该是吃早点的时候了吧，不知您是否能够帮我……”
小王子思忖着：“讨厌风……这对一株植物来讲，真不交运，这朵花儿的苦衷太庞大了……”
I soon learned to know this flower better. On the little prince’s planet the flowers had always been very simple. They had only one ring of petals; they took up no room at all; they were a trouble to nobody. One morning they would appear in the grass, and by night they would have faded peacefully away. But one day, from a seed blown from no one knew where, a new flower had come up; and the little prince had watched very closely over this small sprout which was not like any other small sprouts on his planet. It might, you see, have been a new kind of baobab.